Contracting for Indigenous Health Care: Towards Mutual Accountability
Contracting for Indigenous Health Care: Towards Mutual Accountability
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This resource provides information to assist health staff in delivering culturally respectful and responsive health services to Aboriginal people. It includes general information relating to terminologies, customs, history and protocols, as well as locally specific information for Northern Sydney. Source: Northern Sydney Local Health District
Jenny Molyneux provides mental health counselling to four remote NSW communities. She talks about the importance of building trust and relationships, meeting people in their own communities, and committing to being there for the long term. Source: Desert Pea Media/WNSWPHN
When the National Suicide Prevention Trial was announced in 2016, the Greater Darwin region was chosen as one of two Indigenous-only sites (along with the Kimberley in WA) from a total of 12 regions. Approximately half of suicide-related deaths in the Northern Territory occur within the Darwin region. Young people, males, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are particularly overrepresented in those figures.